American Women Short Story Writers: A Collection of Critical Essays Book

	General Editor's Introduction
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
	Literary Excellence and Social Reform: Lydia Maria Child's Ultraisms for the 1840s	3
	Fiction as Political Discourse: Rose Terry Cooke's Antisuffrage Short Stories	17
	Elizabeth Stoddard: An Examination of Her Work as Pivot Between Exploratory Fiction and the Modern Short Story	33
	Who Was That Masked Woman? Gender and Form in Louisa May Alcott's Confidence Stories	45
	Ripe Fruit: Fantastic Elements in the Short Fiction of Ellen Glasgow, Edith Wharton, and Eudora Welty	61
	Lady Terrorists: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and the Ghost Story	73
	Representations of Female Authorship in Turn-of-the-Century American Magazine Fiction	85
	Lesbian Magazine Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century	99
	Martha Wolfenstein's Idyls of the Gass and the Dilemma of Ethnic Self-Representation	121
	Fannie Hurst's Short Stories of Working Women - "Oats for the Woman," "Sob Sister," and Contemporary Reader Responses: A Meditation	137
	Lost Borders and Blurred Boundaries: Mary Austin as Storyteller	153
	Ritual and Renewal: Keres Traditions in the Short Fiction of Leslie Silko	167
	"A Revolutionary Tale": In Search of African American Women's Short Story Writing	191
	Society and Self in Alice Walker's In Love and Trouble	209
	Displaced Abjection and States of Grace: Denise Chavez's The Last of the Menu Girls	235
	Dorothy Parker's Perpetual Motion	251
	The "Feminine" Short Story in America: Historicizing Epiphanies	267
	Joyce Carol Oates: Reimagining the Masters, Or, A Woman's Place Is in Her Own Fiction	281
	Gender and Genre: The Case of the Novel-in-Stories	295
	The Great Ventriloquist Act: Gender and Voice in the Fiction Workshop	311
	Bibliography of Primary Sources	323
	Bibliography of Secondary Sources	341
	Contributors	353
	Index	359